232 Of Seeds. Part II. 
The CODS of the wild WO AD , (Glafti Syheftris) 
together with the Seeds therein contain d. 
A frriall SPIRAL FRUIT. Above an inch long, and i 
over. It confifteth of five little Cods, all growing upon 
one Stalk , and thence twifted all together ( as feveral 
firings in a Rope) are at the end united in a {lender point. 
The WATER-CALTROP. Tribulw aquaticu*. Dc- 
fcribed in Bauhinus. A kind of fhelly Fruit of a brown 
colour 3 divided into four thick and fharp-pointed Spikes, 
quadrangularly. In the centre of which is lodged a white 
and well tailed Kernel. They grow in the Rivers and 
Lakes in Italy and Germany. Where, in times of fcarcity, 
the people make Bread of the Kernels. 
Some EARS of Tangier WHEAT. Given by the Ho- 
nourable Charles Howard of Norfolk^ Efq;. The Plant 
defcribed in Bauhinus by the Name of Triticum cum mul- 
tiplici Sped. For it is a great broad Spike, as it were 
branched out into feveral little lelfer ones 5 yet all clofely 
com packed : in the middle ^ inch thick, and an inch and * 
broad $ four long, and iharp pointed. 
Some more EARS of the fame fort, brought from Por- 
tugal where it grew. 
CHAP. III. 
Of SEEDS. 
npHe THICK FRENCH-BEAN. ' Phafeolum maximi 
3*. tumidum. An inch and \ long, $ broad, and I an inch 
thick. The feat of the Bean, or of its Plancentula, that is 5 
the part whereon it grows, as long $ of a brown colour, 
with a black rimm. 
The {lender FRENCH-BEAN \ of feveral fizes and 
colours, /r. Red, Black, White or Alh-colour, and the fame 
fpoted with black. Although thefe are quite different from 
the Fabaceous kind, yet I have retained the Englijh Name, 
becaufe in ufe. 
The ROUND fcdAaPhafeolus. Ah rus coccineum majus. 
00 Lib. 17. Bauhinus (a) defcribes it under the Title of Pifum America- 
p,254t num^ improperly, for that the Peafen, and the Phafeolous 
kind, 
